The Sweetest Win
By Mitch Berg
One of the brighter spots in Tuesday’s proceedings was the crushing victory of Peggy Bennett over Shannon Savick in Albert Lea.
It was an old-fashioned whooping – 53-40. Not even close. And that was with an Indyparty candidate who took 6% out of the race, likely mostly from Bennett.
I’m still doing the end-zone happy dance in my head.
Shannon Savick was one of the DFLers from Greater Minnesota who supported Michael Paymar and Alice “The Phantom” Hausman’s gun grab bills in the 2013 legislature.
And she was one of the DFLers who joined Hausman and Paymar in getting up and theatrically walking out of the hearing room when the Real Americans of the Second Amendment movement started their testimony against their proposals. Indeed, the DFL made a shameful spetacle of ignoring their opponents’ testimony.
Watching their bills – and all of their support from Michael Bloomberg – go down to whining, piddling defeat – was sweet. And it was what mattered most.
But seeing Shannon Savick tossed out of office with all the ceremony of a day old egg salad sandwich is right up there.
OK, Ms. Savick. NOW you may get up and leave the room.
UPDATE: It wasn’t just Savick – and it wasn’t just in Minnesota. Gun grabbers were crushed nationwide. It was lopsided in the Senate, of course – but the most astounding progress was among governors.
To sum it all up? The NRA-endorsed candidate won in Maryland.
Perhaps bigger, but definitely more subtle? The flip of the Senate will at least slow down President Obama’s ongoing campaign to pack the Federal Appelate courts with gun-grabbing activists.
It was a good Tuesday for Pro-Second-Amendment Real Americans from coast to coast.
November 6th, 2014 at 11:15 am
Mitch, so what happened in the 8th CD? Mills was ahead in the polls. Nolan ran a horrible campaign. Did the unionists in Duluth generate enough warm bodies at the polls?
November 6th, 2014 at 11:33 am
That’d be my guess.
I’ve heard some analysts point out that Republicans just didn’t turn out, statewide.
They DID turn out in the 11 districts we flipped – and almost enough turned out to flip 11 more but not quite.
Statewide? The GOP underperformed.
November 6th, 2014 at 11:42 am
Minnesota turned from purple to blue. I dare to say bluer than when it was the only state Mondale carried. Just look at all the state offices – libturds were elected to each and every one. I feel sorry for prospects for TRU LBRT in MN.
November 6th, 2014 at 12:33 pm
Gotta watch Connecticut now. Looks like the Governor – who ramrodded the gun registration bill into law, only to see it almost universally ignored by gun owners – may start trying to enforce those laws now that the election is over. The next knock on the door won’t be a politician trying to get your vote.
November 7th, 2014 at 6:13 am
As far as I’m concerned, the Iron Rangers can starve! They continue to illustrate their ignorance, still believing that any moron running for office with a D behind their name, has their backs. In reality, those people are stabbing them in the back. Nolan not only managed to un-do all of the progress that Chip Cravaack made for mining during his term, he also added additional burdens on those same people. I guess that it is true – you really can’t fix stupid!
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